School: Ballinafid (roll number 5390)
- Location:
- Ballynafid, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: S. Ó Duibhgeanáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0738, Page 243
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- (continued from previous page)a few days it will be healed but the poultice must be renewed and kept on the mark until it disappears.
- Travelling through the estate of Major Smyth in Ballinafid we see some queer names on fields which were named when his father bought the estate about the year eighteen hundred.
One of them is the "Keeper's Field" which was named because a house was built on it in which a game-keeper lived. After his death the house was knocked down and the field got the name of the "Keeper's Field".
Another field belonging to the same estate is(continues on next page) - Informant
- Thomas Daly
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Loughanstown, Co. Westmeath
